XMM-Newton view of X-ray overdensities from nearby galaxy clusters: the environmental dependencies

Abstract

In this work, we studied ten nearby ($z$$\le$0.038) galaxy clusters to understand possible interactions between hot plasma and member galaxies. A multi-band source detection was applied to detect point-like structures within the intra-cluster medium. We examined spectral properties of a total of 391 X-ray point sources within cluster's potential well. Log $N$ - Log $S$ was studied in the energy range of 2-10 keV to measure X-ray overdensities. Optical overdensities were also calculated to solve suppression/triggering phenomena for nearby galaxy clusters. Both X-ray to optical flux/luminosity properties, ($X/O$, $L_X$/$L_B$, $L_X$/$L_K$), were investigated for optically identified member galaxies. X-ray luminosity values of our point sources are found to be faint (40.08 $\le$ log($L_X$) $\le$ 42.39 erg s${}^{-1}$). The luminosity range of point sources reveals possible contributions to X-ray emission from LLAGNs, X-ray Binaries and star formation. We estimated $\sim$ 2 times higher X-ray overdensities from galaxies within galaxy clusters compared to fields. Our results demonstrate that optical overdensities are much higher than X-ray overdensities at the cluster's centre, whereas X-ray overdensities increase through the outskirts of clusters. We conclude that high pressure from the cluster's centre affects the balance of galaxies and they lose a significant amount of their fuels; as a result, clustering process quenches X-ray emission of the member galaxies. We also find evidence that the existence of X-ray bright sources within cluster environment can be explained by two main phenomena: contributions from off-nuclear sources and/or AGN triggering caused by galaxy interactions rather than AGN fuelling.

17 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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